“Allow me to begin my analysis of Watch and watchOS 3.0 with my own experience,” Bambi Brannan writes for Mac360. “First, to use Watch is to love to use Watch. It has replaced half a dozen different watches in my collection – sport to luxury to basic – with half a dozen or more different watchbands which are easily interchanged to match an event.”
“Second, Apple’s idea of Watch navigation was designed in a darkened closet with Keynote slides because it didn’t match reality,” Brannan writes. “Instead of using the honeycomb app launcher (who can figure out what all those stupid icons mean?), I went straight to Glances for convenience, and setup just those notifications that were unique and worthwhile to me. That same scene was repeated earth wide because Apple’s honeycomb app launch interface was too cumbersome to use.”
“In Watch watchOS 3.0, Apple addresses my major complaints. Apps launch instantly or nearly so. Glances are gone and replaced by a familiar and user configurable Dock experience. Goodbye, honeycomb app launcher, we hardly used ye,” Brannan writes. “In other words, Apple paid attention to how customers were actually using Watch and responded accordingly with adjustments, changes, and options that will make Watch more useful than the first versions of watchOS.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yup.
Apple Watch is currently in the same situation as iPhone was in 2007, saddled with 2G speed and prior to the iPhone OS SDK (March 6, 2008) and the resultant App Store (July 10, 2008). A few of us had iPhones for that year while the rest of the world looked at them as a curiosity, but we knew.
We wouldn’t trade that early iPhone or this early Apple Watch experience for anything.
You can have our Apple Watches when you pry them off our cold, dead wrists. — MacDailyNews, December 1, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I could MDN, hoping for great improvement and 3.0
I’ve never regretted early adopter thrillership in either iPhone or Apple Watch. You knew it was going to not only BE something great but end up something even greater and the journey is half the fun. Too many ADHD doofus Fandroid users think everything should arrive fully baked. Their loss. The trick is to have overcome the initial major hurdles in a new device category as the minor ones get sorted out over time.
I can’t imagine Android users having any faith in everything arriving fully baked.
Nothing in tech is ever fully baked, it’s a moving target. Something Fandroid fail to consider.
I hate writers that talk like “Apple (or xyz) is so stupid for designing abc that way. If they only talked to me in stead of staying in that darkened closet, I could have told them how to do it write the first time.”
But with a name like “Bambi” I’m not surprised she has that attitude.
do it “right” – how ironic I misspelled that word.
MDN, where is our edit button already!
So you are going to rip the writer and infer she is a moron on a basis of her name? Pathetic. Next time try reading the article before you comment and then try to not act like the people you spend your time criticizing.
Found the feminist
@theothersteve
Maybe you should read the article before commenting. The author was complimenting for being sufficiently disciplined to change Watch based upon customer usage. The only ‘stupid’ reference was to the honeycomb app launcher, which, BTW is stupid and hard to use. Note that Apple found a better way to launch apps; thanks to watching users. Disparaging the author’s name is sexist so you should be ashamed (she’s written over 800 articles about Mac and Apple– how many have you written?).
Apple better think real hard how to make AppleWatch desirable for me. I can’t imagine myself what Apple could do to improve AppleWatch.